Albert Schatz (collector)

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Albert Schatz , complete Albert Karl / Carl Robert Schatz (born May 19, 1839 in Rostock , † October 18, 1910 ibid) was a German music dealer. His large libretti collection came to the Library of Congress in 1908 .

Life

Albert Schatz was the son of a saddler . He did a commercial apprenticeship in Rostock. He then worked as a businessman in Hamburg and for seven years in San Francisco .

New market around 1900; No. 18 is the gray house on the far right on the west side

In 1873 he returned to Rostock and took over the business of his brother-in-law Ludwig Trutschel (1826–1904) on October 1, 1874, the court music store Ludwig Trutschel , Neuer Markt 18 , founded in 1857. He held numerous honorary positions in the city's musical life. From 1886 he was the treasurer of the Rostock concert association. In 1905 he handed the business over to Albert Jülich.

He died single.

collection

Schatz had the plan to write a story of the opera. To do this, he brought together a collection of text books, mostly libretti from world premieres and premieres. In over 42 years, the world's most extensive private collection of 12,253 text books was created. 500 of these date from the 17th century and over 4000 from the 18th century.

In 1908 Schatz offered the collection to his friend Oscar Sonneck , head of the music department at the Library of Congress. Sonneck obtained the purchase through the library. On the basis of the collection, Sonneck was able to publish the first comprehensive bibliography Catalog of opera librettos before 1800 in 1914 .

The collection has been accessible in digital form since 2017.

Works

  • On the prehistory of the Rostock city theater. In: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock. 1898

literature

  • Catalog of opera librettos printed before 1800. Washington 1914 ( digitized , Internet Archive )
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8601 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General address book for the German book trade, the antiquarian, colportage, art, map and music trade as well as related branches of business. 39 (1877), p. 332
  2. ^ Address book of the German book trade 1905, p. 254
personal data
SURNAME Honey, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schatz, Albert Carl Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music dealer and collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1910
Place of death Rostock